TITLE : Howto create a JFS filesystem on a floppy diskette. OS LEVEL : AIX 4.3.3 and AIX 5.1.0 DATE : 09/11/2001 VERSION : 1.0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undocumented option nointegrity of /usr/sbin/mount allows us to use floppy disks (and maybe other removable media) as read/write jfs filesystems under AIX 4.3.3: 1) Insert formatted floppy into drive 2) mkfs -V jfs /dev/fd0 Device /dev/fd0: Standard empty filesystem Size: 2880 512-byte (UBSIZE) blocks Initial Inodes: 512 3) mount -o nointegrity /dev/fd0 /mnt You can even automount it with an appropriate entry in /etc/auto_direct: /floppy -fstype=jfs,rmv,nointegrity :/dev/fd0